About
Catching My Drift
Talking to think
“When I start saying something, oftentimes I don’t really know how the thought is going to end.”
“I ramble and hesitate, and that, to me, is the most natural way to think.”
“Tools to think with should mirror our most natural ways of thinking.”
Voice as an interface
“I have too many ideas at once, and they’re all flowing… Typing is too slow in that moment.”
“It’s cheaper than typing, so I say way more.”
“I don’t want to lose that train of thought, and I don’t want to lose my ideas.”
“The work of recording is on the system, so I can do the thinking.”
Externalizing ideas
“Even though writing and talking are linear, thinking isn’t.”
“The landscape of my thoughts is very different and messy.”
“…not only helps me retain my thoughts but also expand on them and view unexpected connections or ways to reshape them.”
Thoughts, verbatim
“When my ideas are verbatim, it takes me back to that moment where I said it.”
“There’s an odd familiarity in reading something you said as a quote.”
“The way I said it is often the point.”
“A summary smooths away the specificity I cared about.”
“How I phrase it carries half of what I meant.”
“I don’t want anything to do the thinking for me. I just want more room to think.”